“It is regrettable to spend one's life in a battle that ends with no victory nor defeat, to consume it in another battle that ends with a defeat, and in a third that ends with his victory over his brother.”

“It is not wise to think of people as either friends or enemies as if you were the center of the universe; many are not aware of your existance!”

“My enemies, I thank you!You are who trained me to be patient, to respond to the evil with the good and to overlook.”

“I am grateful to some pens that are as sharp as a sword edge; they taught me how to go on calmly and smiling.”

“Experience taught me that it is wise to be patient and forbearing with opponents and to use the divine cure of repeling with what is best (then verily he, between whom and you there was enmity, (will become) as though he was a close friend.) Quran 41:34”

“Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.”

“Khattam-Shud,' he Said slowly 'is the arch-enemy of all stories, even of language itself. He is the prince of silence and the foe of speech. And because everything ends, because dreams ens, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. 'It is finished,' we tell one another, 'it's over, Khattam-Shud; the end.”